[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Z4WccPKkU&fs=1&hl=en_GB] The latest series of The Apprentice kicked off with a sausage-themed task that was clearly designed to generate a barrage of double entendres. From Joanna’s (quite sensible) “We need to up the meat content” to the predictable “Have you… Continue Reading →
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfMJmJNii4Y&fs=1&hl=en_GB] When digital technology fails you, sometimes it’s good to fall back on the virtues of a 35mm print, a new piano score, and one of London’s finest cinemas. I watched Hitchcock’s The Ring, at the Barbican, after two recent… Continue Reading →
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeudQ3MQnVw&fs=1&hl=en_GB] He shared a bath with Laurence Olivier (Spartacus), a bed with Janet Leigh (the first of his six wives) and was one half of a flamboyant 70s crime-fighting duo with Roger Moore in The Persuaders. But despite his luxuriant… Continue Reading →
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irL7QhrpF8s&fs=1&hl=en_GB] With less than week to go before the start of the XIX Commonwealth Games in Delhi, all I can think about is bathrooms. Images of the insanitary facilities at the Athletes Village have been splashed all over the world’s… Continue Reading →
It’s tough being a top sportsman. Just ask former World Snooker Champion, Ronnie O’Sullivan, who wowed spectators at the World Open on Monday with yet another consummate exhibition of skill — a maximum 147 break. With just eight points on… Continue Reading →
Film School Rejects recently posted a list of the best — and worst — movie collaborations between directors and their spouses. It seems those capricious movie gods have decreed that for every Oscar-winning gem like Fargo (Joel Coen directs Frances… Continue Reading →
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaZ07vU7GjI&fs=1&hl=en_GB] How do you make a football out of an inflated condom, a plastic bag and a piece of string? Pay close attention to the opening scene of this colourful postscript to World Cup 2010 and you might just find… Continue Reading →
“BEN MILLER’S HUGE” shouted the poster ads for a play about a pair of aspiring comedians, which was produced on the Edinburgh Fringe back in 1993. Seventeen years on, Ben Miller – one half of a double act with Alexander… Continue Reading →
In The Stepford Wives (1975), desperate housewife Joanna Eberhart (Katharine Ross) discovers that there is a fate worse than being married to boring lawyer Walter (Peter Masterson) — a man with all the sexual magnetism of a rotting corpse. The… Continue Reading →
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